75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 62 -APR . 4 , 1938 For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven apparatus, fire boat and for new apparatus, new motor vehicles, new appliances, employment of mechanics, helpers, and laborers in the fire department repair shop, and for the purchase of necessary sup- plies, materials, equipment, and tools, $40,000: Provided, That the Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to build or con- struct, in whole or in part, fire-fighting apparatus in the fire depart- ment repair shop. For hose, $15,000. For fuel, $23,500. For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags, and halyards, medals of award, and other necessary items, $22,500. For additional fire-fighting apparatus, $64,000. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Salaries: For personal services, including the employment of a business manager to supervise the business administration and opera- tion of municipal hospitals and sanatoria and business activities of the Health Department, to be appointed by the Commissioners without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements, and including not exceeding $16,880 for the inspection of all Federal buildings and all public establishments and employees where food is sold or served and not to exceed $6,000 for contract investigational services, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S . C. 5), $229,690. Prevention of contagious diseases: For contingent expenses inci- dent to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat. 635-641), and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, epi- demic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907 (34 Stat. 889-890), and an Act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District of Columbia, approved May 13, 1908 (35 Stat. 126-127), under the direction of the health officer of said District, manufacture of serums, including their use in indigent cases, and for the prevention of infan- tile paralysis and other communicable diseases, and of an Act for the prevention of venereal diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved February 26, 1925 (43 Stat. 1001-1003), and for maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries or compensation for personal services, when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, and for the prevention of such other communicable dis- eases as hereinbefore provided, and purchase of reference books and medical journals, $43,830: Provided, That any bacteriologist employed under this appropriation may be assigned by the health officer to the bacteriological examination of milk and other dairy products and of the water supplies of dairy farms, and to such other sanitary works as in the judgment of the health officer will promote the public health, whether such examinations be or be not directly related to contagious diseases. Maintenance of Dispensaries: For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment of indigent persons suffering from tuberculosis and of indigent persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal services, rent, supplies, and con- Repairs to appa- ratus, etc. Proviso. Construction at re- pair shop. Hose. Fuel. Contingent expen- ses. New apparatus. Health Depart- ment. Salaries. Post, p. 1121. 5U. S . C . §§661-674; 631-652; Supp. III , §§ 673,673c. Inspection of public buildings where food is sold, etc. Contract investiga- tional services. R. S . §3709. 41U.S . . §5. Prevention of con- tagious diseases. 29 Stat. 635. Scarlet fever, etc. 34 Stat. 889. Tuberculosis regis- tration. 35 Stat. 126. Infantile paralysis, etc. Venereal diseases. 43 Stat. 1001. Disinfecting service. Proviso. Bacteriological ex- amination of milk, etc. Maintenance of dis- pensaries. 52 STAT. ]
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